Legitimate opposition

• Verfasst von: Kirshner, Alexander S. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Legitimate opposition
• Verf.angabe: Alexander S. Kirshner
• Verlagsort: New Haven ; London
• Verlag: Yale University Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: x, 282 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Interessenniveau: 01, General/trade: For a non-specialist adult audience. (01) ; Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24346-8
• ISBN: 0-300-24346-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Kapitol Washington <Washington, DC> / (s)Opposition / (s)Demokratie / (s)Angriff
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: 21st century history: from c 2000 -
• Sach-SW: Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
• Sach-SW: Political control & freedoms
• Sach-SW: Political structures: democracy
• Sach-SW: Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte
• Sach-SW: Politisches System: Demokratie
• Zeit-SW: 21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2100 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: 21st century
• K10plus-PPN: 181180876X

Abstract

The first theory of legitimate opposition in fifty years In political systems defined by legitimate opposition, those who hold power allow their rivals to peacefully challenge and displace them, and those who have lost power do not seek to sabotage the winners. Legitimate opposition came under assault at the American capitol on January 6, 2021, and is menaced by populists and autocrats across the globe. Alexander Kirshner provides the first sustained theory of legitimate opposition since the Cold War. On the orthodox view, democracy is lost when legitimate opposition is subverted. But efforts to reconcile opposition with democracy fail to identify the value of the frequently imperfect, unfair and inegalitarian real-world practice. Marshaling a revisionist reconstruction of opposition's history, Kirshner's book provides a new account of opposition's value fit for the twenty-first century and shows why, given the difficult conditions of political life, legitimate opposition is an achievement worth defending